Are Spammers Lazy?

[catcul]

Ever since I had received that scam letter from Nigeria, I decided to check my Spam folder to see if I could find any more comedy gold. I found these four e-mails. By themselves, they're not that funny, but put them together, they're hilarious.

Note: I censored the names, links, and pictures, but otherwise left the e-mails intact.

To: Catcul
From: Abby
Subject: ★ Abby BOOBS sent you a WINK ★
Sent: Jul 12 at 6:38 AM

Hi sweety,
I saw your photo in the social network and realized that we live in the same town.
How about spending a couple of hot weekends together and having fun without any needless questions? ;-)

Just write me in my profile: [link]

[pic]

With kisses,
Abby

To: Catcul
From: Kim
Subject: ★ Kim BOOBS sent you a WINK ★
Sent: Jul 12 at 7:24 AM

Hi sweety,
I saw your photo in the social network and realized that we live in the same town.
How about spending a couple of hot weekends together and having fun without any needless questions? ;-)

Just write me in my profile: [link]

[pic]

With kisses,
Kim

To: Catcul
From: Julissa
Subject: Frankly speaking... I WANT YOU!
Sent: Jul 12 at 2:14 PM

[pic]

You know... I'm not gonna play stupid games with you...
I really like you..seriously!
We'll not waist our time on endless chatter or other bullshit.
Let's make magic now...you know what I mean )

You'll find me here: [link]

I'm waiting for ya!

To: Catcul
From: Evelyn
Subject: Frankly speaking... I WANT YOU!
Sent: Jul 12 at 4:26 PM

[pic]

You know... I'm not gonna play stupid games with you...
I really like you..seriously!
We'll not waist our time on endless chatter or other bullshit.
Let's make magic now...you know what I mean )

You'll find me here: [link]

I'm waiting for ya!

Nice try, "ladies." Let's not "waist" time here. If I wasn't already on to you, I would still find the cut-and-paste jobs suspicious. No, I didn't see the pictures or links since Yahoo! blocked them. No, I am not going to WASTE my time or money checking out your pornography. I'm also not going to expose my computer to any of your viruses, either.

[HYHYBT]

Lazy, or perhaps the idea is that a familiar name might get through a spam filter that blocks the same message from an unfamiliar name, and of course they don't know which is which.

(Not really spam, but this was driving me nuts a few months ago. One of the advantages of advertising with Facebook is supposed to be targeting: they know a lot about people, and can use that to set who sees what. My profile settings are that I am male and interested in men, yet for quite a while I was seeing ads, the kind that look like posts in your newsfeed if you're not paying much attention, for a dating site whose only options were "man seeking woman" and "woman seeking man." They should complain, because they definitely weren't getting their money's worth.)